Pas­cal: The Great­ness and Lit­tle­ness of Man, A Think­ing Reed

NoBadCakeSep 10, 2022, 8:05 PM
9 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Job] Pro­ject Man­ager: Com­mu­nity Health (CEA)

XodarapSep 10, 2022, 6:40 PM
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.centreforeffectivealtruism.org)

Un­bounded util­ity func­tions and precommitment

MichaelStJulesSep 10, 2022, 4:16 PM
4 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What is the “Less Wrong” ap­proved acronym for 1984-risk?

Logan ZoellnerSep 10, 2022, 2:38 PM
5 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Find out how util­i­tar­ian you are—a mega thread of philos­o­phy polls

spencergSep 10, 2022, 2:05 PM
8 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(twitter.com)

Put Dirty Dishes in the Dishwasher

jefftkSep 10, 2022, 1:10 PM
37 points
16 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Join ASAP! (AI Safety Ac­countabil­ity Pro­gramme) 🚀

CallumMcDougallSep 10, 2022, 11:15 AM
19 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

Quintin’s al­ign­ment pa­pers roundup—week 1

Quintin PopeSep 10, 2022, 6:39 AM
120 points
6 comments9 min readLW link

Path de­pen­dence in ML in­duc­tive biases

Sep 10, 2022, 1:38 AM
68 points
13 comments10 min readLW link

Keep­ing Time in Epoch Seconds

Gordon Seidoh WorleySep 10, 2022, 12:28 AM
11 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Ought will host a fac­tored cog­ni­tion “Lab Meet­ing”

Sep 9, 2022, 11:46 PM
35 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Web4/​Heaven—The Simulation

Dunning K.Sep 9, 2022, 10:58 PM
26 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Eval­u­a­tions pro­ject @ ARC is hiring a re­searcher and a web­dev/​engineer

Beth BarnesSep 9, 2022, 10:46 PM
99 points
7 comments10 min readLW link

Swap and Scale

Stephen FowlerSep 9, 2022, 10:41 PM
17 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

My emo­tional re­ac­tion to the cur­rent fund­ing situation

Sam F. BrownSep 9, 2022, 10:02 PM
105 points
36 comments5 min readLW link
(sambrown.eu)

Alex­aTM − 20 Billion Pa­ram­e­ter Model With Im­pres­sive Performance

MrThinkSep 9, 2022, 9:46 PM
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Fun][Link] Align­ment SMBC Comic

Gunnar_ZarnckeSep 9, 2022, 9:38 PM
7 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(www.smbc-comics.com)

Gate­keeper Vic­tory: AI Box Reflection

Sep 9, 2022, 9:38 PM
6 points
6 comments9 min readLW link

In­ter­pret­ing Afford­able Housing

jefftkSep 9, 2022, 7:40 PM
16 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Lon­don Ra­tion­al­ish Meetup 2022-09-11

calmiguanaSep 9, 2022, 6:39 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

AI al­ign­ment with hu­mans… but with which hu­mans?

geoffreymillerSep 9, 2022, 6:21 PM
12 points
33 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Should you re­frain from hav­ing chil­dren be­cause of the risk posed by ar­tifi­cial in­tel­li­gence?

MientrasSep 9, 2022, 5:39 PM
17 points
31 comments1 min readLW link

Notes on Resolve

David GrossSep 9, 2022, 4:42 PM
9 points
3 comments31 min readLW link

Over­sight Leagues: The Train­ing Game as a Feature

Paul BricmanSep 9, 2022, 10:08 AM
20 points
6 comments10 min readLW link

Un­der­stand­ing and avoid­ing value drift

TurnTroutSep 9, 2022, 4:16 AM
48 points
14 comments6 min readLW link

Samotsvety’s AI risk forecasts

eliflandSep 9, 2022, 4:01 AM
44 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

Most Peo­ple Start With The Same Few Bad Ideas

johnswentworthSep 9, 2022, 12:29 AM
165 points
30 comments3 min readLW link

Mon­i­tor­ing for de­cep­tive alignment

evhubSep 8, 2022, 11:07 PM
135 points
8 comments9 min readLW link

[An email with a bunch of links I sent an ex­pe­rienced ML re­searcher in­ter­ested in learn­ing about Align­ment /​ x-safety.]

David Scott Krueger (formerly: capybaralet)Sep 8, 2022, 10:28 PM
47 points
1 comment5 min readLW link

Progress links & tweets, 2022-09-08

jasoncrawfordSep 8, 2022, 8:43 PM
13 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Post­mortem: Try­ing out for Man­i­fold Markets

Sep 8, 2022, 5:54 PM
24 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

Thoughts on AGI con­scious­ness /​ sentience

Steven ByrnesSep 8, 2022, 4:40 PM
38 points
37 comments6 min readLW link

A rough idea for solv­ing ELK: An ap­proach for train­ing gen­er­al­ist agents like GATO to make plans and de­scribe them to hu­mans clearly and hon­estly.

Michael SoareverixSep 8, 2022, 3:20 PM
2 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

What Should AI Owe To Us? Ac­countable and Aligned AI Sys­tems via Con­trac­tu­al­ist AI Alignment

xuanSep 8, 2022, 3:04 PM
26 points
16 comments25 min readLW link

ACX Book Re­view Discussion

ScrewtapeSep 8, 2022, 2:22 PM
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Covid 9/​8/​22: Booster Boosting

ZviSep 8, 2022, 1:50 PM
34 points
9 comments24 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

So­lar Black­out Resistance

jefftkSep 8, 2022, 1:30 PM
69 points
32 comments3 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

All AGI safety ques­tions wel­come (es­pe­cially ba­sic ones) [Sept 2022]

plexSep 8, 2022, 11:56 AM
22 points
48 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Se­quences/​Eliezer es­says be­yond those in AI to Zom­bies?

DomenicSep 8, 2022, 5:05 AM
4 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Linkpost: Github Copi­lot pro­duc­tivity experiment

Daniel KokotajloSep 8, 2022, 4:41 AM
88 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(github.blog)

OpenPrin­ci­ples Boot­camp (Free) -- Reflect & Act on your Ra­tion­al­ity Prin­ci­ples.

ti_guoSep 8, 2022, 3:06 AM
6 points
3 comments4 min readLW link

Search­ing for Mo­du­lar­ity in Large Lan­guage Models

Sep 8, 2022, 2:25 AM
44 points
3 comments14 min readLW link

90% of any­thing should be bad (& the pre­ci­sion-re­call trade­off)

cartografieSep 8, 2022, 1:20 AM
33 points
22 comments6 min readLW link

How to Do Re­search. v1

Pablo RepettoSep 8, 2022, 1:08 AM
29 points
4 comments41 min readLW link
(pabloernesto.github.io)

Galaxy Trucker Needs a New Se­cond Half

jefftkSep 7, 2022, 8:10 PM
13 points
7 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] In a lack of data, how should you weigh cre­dences in the­o­ret­i­cal physics’s The­o­ries of Every­thing, or TOEs?

Noosphere89Sep 7, 2022, 6:25 PM
7 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Gen­er­a­tors Of Disagree­ment With AI Alignment

George3d6Sep 7, 2022, 6:15 PM
27 points
9 comments9 min readLW link
(www.epistem.ink)

Shröd­inger’s lot­tery or: Why you are go­ing to live forever

Chase DowdellSep 7, 2022, 6:13 PM
1 point
2 comments4 min readLW link

Is train­ing data go­ing to be diluted by AI-gen­er­ated con­tent?

Hannes ThurnherrSep 7, 2022, 6:13 PM
10 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

It’s (not) how you use it

Eleni AngelouSep 7, 2022, 5:15 PM
8 points
1 comment2 min readLW link